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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: meanie on June 02, 2011, 09:49:56 PM
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If I'm out of order starting this, please tell me......
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I had to start this as I have a few to show off.
The first is Penstemon pinifolius. Bought cheaply in the end of season sales last year, this is the first time that it's bloomed for me.
The second is another new bloomer for me, Roscoea scillifolia.
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Thanks, meanie, about time we got this started. ;)
Love the dark Roscoea.... are you growing this in a pot/under glass or outside. Lovely colour. 8)
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Maggi - it was started off under glass, but is outside now.
Two more, both recent purchases though.
The first is Diplarhhena moraea, which was bought to replace the D.latifolia that copped it over the winter.
The second is Arisaema costatum, which was to replace my no show - the same no show that poked it's head through the next day!
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I think your Penstemon is a form of pinifolius called 'Mersea Yellow' though there are others just about the same but given different names. I like the Roscoea. All my scillifolias are a quite pretty pink but they seed around like billyoh.
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Lesley - that was indeed the full name on its tag. I'm just pleased that it made it through the winter.
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I think your Penstemon is a form of pinifolius called 'Mersea Yellow' though there are others just about the same but given different names. I like the Roscoea. All my scillifolias are a quite pretty pink but they seed around like billyoh.
Lesley if you ever have spare seed from your scillifolias could you think of me,I am waiting for seed from a very dark form called Blackbird.
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One final one.
I'm really made up by this as I've failed repeatedly before. This is the product of what appeared to me to be very large bulbs of 70/80mm. I had clearly been buying substandard bulbs in the past. It's Hymenocallis festalis.......
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The second is Arisaema costatum, which was to replace my no show - the same no show that poked it's head through the next day!
Ah well, you can't have too many! ;)
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What a striking arisaema meanie, complemented by the penstemon in the background.
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What a striking arisaema meanie, complemented by the penstemon in the background.
Thanks - P.hetrophyllus "Heavenly Blue" which blooms like crazy for months on end. Grown from seed which was sown September '09.
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I was visiting the garden of a forumist-lurker today. She pointed out this variegated aberration on a Papaver orientalis. I don't know much about these poppies and what's out there in the trade but said it looked very special to me. Are there other variegated orientalis about? Also comments welcomed. (She has since removed all normal shoots.)
johnw
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Bob Brown of Cotswold Garden Flowers has a variegated orientalis... see this link:
http://www.cgf.net/popup.php?image=./photos/PapFro01.jpg&title=CGF%202005&width=300&height=400
PAPAVER ORIENTALE 'FROSTY'Described as
White-edged hairy foliage red-orange flowers May-Jun, 50cm."
He has £8.50 against it, so pretty special since the average one is £5.50 ;)
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Maggie my friend has it in her garden.You can see a growth to the side that has reverted back,i must remember to let her know.
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Three from me.
1 is a black calla lily(the other latin name is just to hard to spell) ;D
2. is a campanula i have in my crockery i don't have a clue which one but it is very well behaved.
3. is a Dianthus seedling that kept for the colour.
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Oriental poppies will often throw white growths which are distorted, sort of crumpled up. I don't think it is a constant feature and it's not one I'd be encouraging, would probably nip them out.
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Lewisia tweedyi 'Love Dream' at it's best right now.
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Absolutely superb Magnar.
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Meconopsis impedita
Mec delavayi, looking very stunted... From heat? Too much sun?
Paeonia anomala x lutea, or at least that's what it is supposed to be ??? From Severin Schlyter seeds, so should be true.
Molly
Exochorda serratifolia
3x Smilacina tatsienense
One of the Diphylleias, this one showed up in a seedling pot a few years back
Cypripedium flavum
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Mec delavayi, looking very stunted... From heat? Too much sun?
Yes, I'd think from too much heat and sun, Bjørnar.
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Smilacina purpurea, or so the labels says, in flower today.
johnw
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Those labels, eh? They'll tell you anything ::)
Pretty though, very pretty.
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Yes, I'd think from too much heat and sun, Bjørnar.
Oh werll, I'm certainly not complaining about that! ;D
John;
Lovely plant, but it's misidentified as you suspected, that's S. oleracea.
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Yes, I'd think from too much heat and sun, Bjørnar.
Oh werll, I'm certainly not complaining about that! ;D
John;
Lovely plant, but it's misidentified as you suspected, that's S. oleracea.
Oh, oh that's what was ordered as but subbed with purpurea!!! Label change.
Thanks
johnw
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Always a thrill when the red and yellow Caltha opens it's buds.
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You kindly show us yet another gem, Magnar.
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It seems that the hesitant spring has been pushed aside by summer as June arrived in Ann Arbor.
Here are pictures from the peony garden at the Arboretum of the University of Michigan this weekend.
They have a collection of heirloom peonies with some 700 plants. Just about 50% were in full bloom.
(1) Le Jour
(2) Grandiflora Nivea Plena
(3) Duchess of Portland
Koko
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some more pictures
Silvia Saunders
Tokio
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peony garden
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better picture of the garden
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some more peonies
Meteor
Louis Kelsey
Madam Cabot
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In flower today : Aquilegia einseliana . A very compact specie (leafs only grow 5 cm tall , with flower 15 cm tall)with very nice blue flowers. The spurs are short.
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Oxygraphis glacialis in the gravel bed.
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Oh Magnar ... now you have excelled yourself! Magnificent!
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Last autumn and winter I posted shots of this Malus sargentii that I am fairly certain I received as seed from the UK about 25 years ago. I got 3-4 seeds and passed them along to a friend with whom I pleaded to grow the seed. He did so and the one surviving tree gets better and better by the year. The fruit whilst smallish is very shiny and holds well through the winter. Should be a splendid show this autumn as I can't imagine any Malus flowering heavier this one is this year.
johnw - sun threatening but another week of rain predicted.
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Amazing flowering John :o
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An outstanding tree, John; amazing amount of blossom.
Paddy
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a couple of Roscoeas.
R humeana alba (the picture just doesn't do it justice) and cautleoides "Jeffrey Thomas"
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Beautiful roscoeas Ian, especially the white.
Growing Malus from seed is interesting and quite quick. Maybe 10 years ago I sowed a few seeds from a huge, russet red crabapple I picked off the footpath outside someone's fence. The apple was about 6cms in diameter. They germinated quickly and I potted them in large plastic bags and put aside in the nursery then forgot about them really. I now have 3 trees each about 3 metres and with large, pink and fragrant flowers each spring. (5 times now, so they flowered at about 5 years from sowing). I never saw the parent in flower but the children are superb, a pale, a mid and a deep pink but otherwise similar. But only one has fruited and the crabapples are very small and bright yellow, nothing at all like the ones I sowed. They're still in their original plastic bags but as I want to save them I'll have to wrench then dig them and separate them into new homes. I will need muscular male help. ???
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Very nice plants. Ian. Wish I could once make them live over winter here, but I have never had any luck so far.
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Very nice plants. Ian. Wish I could once make them live over winter here, but I have never had any luck so far.
Magnar what is your winter minimum temperature I thought your winter would not be much colder than us but it was your summers that were cooler. I could send you some seedlings of cautleoides "Jeffrey Thomas" next spring PM me if you want to try them. By the way I wish I could grow some of the things you show but we can't have everything
Leslie thanks I think the alba is nice too
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My Roscoeas are struggling to shed their sheaths properly - could it be because I moved them in bud?
A couple of my favourites which have just come to life;
The first is Digitalis lanata - seed collected and sown July/August last year and over-wintered in my "coldframe".
Second one is Mimulus cardinalis - tough as they come and it self seeds prolifically too!
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First Nomocharis out and yes Mark I did just notice that aphid!
johnw
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I particularly enjoy this Primula sieboldii from a friend.
johnw
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Diphylleia cymosa has enjoyed this last 6+ weeks of misty rainy weather.
johnw
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I particularly enjoy this Primula sieboldii from a friend.
johnw
I can see why John, it's a beauty ! :o
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Everything looks pristine in your garden John. Here slugs and snails would rampage big time in that kind of 'soft' weather.
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What a nice plant :o I have never seen Diphylleia in the gardens I have visited
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Everything looks pristine in your garden John. Here slugs and snails would rampage big time in that kind of 'soft' weather.
Ashley - Ken has to take the credit, I just keep producing more stuff for him to look after. I think lately it's even been too wet here for the slugs! Heavy rain predicted for the next 48 hours after 2 full days of sunshine.
johnw
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Everything looks pristine in your garden John. Here slugs and snails would rampage big time in that kind of 'soft' weather.
Ashley - Ken has to take the credit, I just keep producing more stuff for him to look after. I think lately it's even been too wet here for the slugs! Heavy rain predicted for the next 48 hours after 2 full days of sunshine.
johnw
Aha! Well, we know who finds the time to do the posting here, of course... while K is beavering away! ;D
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Meconopsis in a friend's garden today. Unfortunately the label is lost. Any suggestions?
johnw
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Looks rather like M.grandis John, one of its forms or maybe one cross with M.betonicifolia.
Helichrysum milfordiae is preparing a fantastic flowering this year by me.
I can't wait to see the many cushions covering with flowers in a the next few days, although it's already a pretty sight, with this reddish color on the closed buds.
Lilium monadelphum is at its best for the moment, with all flowers opened meanwhile. What a scent all around it!
I have 70 young plants more to plant this month, hopping I can smell the scent in all the garden when they will be old enough to flower in 2 or 3 years ;D
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That really looks like a great flowering Philippe, on the Helichrysum. Is it the shadier side of the plant without buds?
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No Lesley, they always have such an irregular flower display by me. This year the irregularity will be only far more generous ;D
We didn't had much snow laying long last winter. I don't know how it is with the winters and flowering in its natural locations, but I really find they flower far much better than the other years. Perhaps there's a link here?
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As I understand it, it comes from quite high in the Drakensberg mountains and lives in almost perpetual mist. Certainly it likes a lot of water in the garden through the summers. I find it only flowers in the centre, older part, never near the edges on new growth.
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Meconopsis X Marit.. very good and long flowering plant
And Meconopsis punicea
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First Nomocharis in bloom when I returned home tonight after a weekend at the mountain cabin.
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A couple more from this evening:
Corydalis pseudobarbisepala
Castilleja rhexifolia
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Oh, oh that's what was ordered as but subbed with purpurea!!! Label change.
Thanks
johnw
How convoluted is that?! It is lovely though!
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Magnar-- many beauties! I do like that Caltha, which I have seen only on the forum here.. leaves are also very different from the wild plants here..
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A couple of new bloomers;
First photo is my Fuchsia perscandens - my favourite Fuchsia despite its dreadfully messy growth habit! The first blooms this year seem a little shy, as they're all very much on the underside of the plant making it tricky to get a decent photo. At least this shot captures the blue pollen.
The second one is Digitalis parviflora grown from seed given to me last year. Very small flowers of about 7 or 8mm.
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The Fuchsia is one of ours yet only a handful of people round the country seem to grow it, if even that many. I've never seen it myself.
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The Fuchsia is one of ours yet only a handful of people round the country seem to grow it, if even that many. I've never seen it myself.
When the National Fuchsia society of New Zealand say that it's "not an attractive plant" I guess that it hasn't too much of a chance of becoming popular!
I love it though - partly because it's unusual, and because it is the classic Fuchsia shape (in my opinion).
For those who would like to find out more about the native Fuchsia of New Zealand, the link below is to the relevant page at the National Fuchsia society of New Zealand.
http://nfsnz.orconhosting.net.nz/nzspecies.htm
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i take lots of pictures meaning to share them on the forum but do not get round to resizing but it's raining this afternoon so I am trying to catch up.
A general view of the meconopsis bed
Meconopsis punicea
Meconopsis supposed to be pink perennial hybrid with a lilac form of betonicifolia in the background
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I thought I had this one resized but had not.
The Aquilegias and allium have gone over here as well as being blown over and the Lilium martagon are just beginning. Lots of them are leaning or have kinks in their stems.
A dark Aquilegia with Astrantia 'Roma' (had to have that one)
This double ragged robin cannot support itself and has to lean on the Astrantia
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Yet another Nomocharis in flower today.
johnw - the sun appeared around 3pm. Heavy rain on Saturday.
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Thanks Meanie, for the link. I didn't know we had a Fuchsia Soc in NZ but I suppose it was inevitable. Many people grow them. I only have F. procumbens but another Forumist David Lyttle I'm sure grows perscandens so I'll ask him for a cutting. It may not be spectacular and beautiful but I do think it is attractive. I'm one of those who are attracted by plants which are often described as "curious rather than beautiful." ;D
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Lesley - I wonder if you'll be spending a lot of time trying to get it to behave with its "semi-trailing, climbing shrub and is of generally spreading habit".
Mine does flower it's little heart out though!
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Asperula gussoney is feeling well now
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While raining yesterday at last some time to resize pictures.
And just now it starts again, so I can share some here.
Here are a few perennials
Lupinus Red Rum
The only one of 9 different ones which survived the winter.
When I saw these new hybrids last year I could not resist planting these, but they don't seem to be as tough as I was told ??? ::)
Anemone canadensis 1
Nice but always trying to take over the whole place ::) ::)
Clematis integrifolia Floris V
Leucosceptrum japonicum Golden Angel
Erigeron Rotes Meer
Saponaria sicula var. intermedia [Syn. S. hausknechtii]
One of the parents of S. x lempergii which flowers much later.
Tanacetum corymbosum Zauberstern the flowers slowly changing to pinkish
Tanacetum corymbosum Festtafel
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Thanks to all for sharing their beautiful pictures with us.
Some pictures from the garden:
Hypericum kazdaghensis
Edraianthus wettsteinii
Erigeron leiomerus
Lilium martagon cattaniae
Hosta venusta minor
Hosta Snow Mouse
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So many great flowers.... you all have wonderful gardens and it is so nice to be abel to see what you are growing :)
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Error, sent the detailpicture of Edraianthus wettsteinii twice,
here is the entire plant:
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Rudi,
Beautiful flowers. A question for you re Lilium martagon cattaniae: I have a lily in flower in the garden, label lost, which is exactly this colour. Has your plant noticeably thick, fleshy petals? The name rings a bell and it coincides with a season of sowing martagon lily seed - there are several martagon lilies together in this part of the garden.
Paddy
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The Fuchsia is one of ours yet only a handful of people round the country seem to grow it, if even that many. I've never seen it myself.
When the National Fuchsia society of New Zealand say that it's "not an attractive plant" I guess that it hasn't too much of a chance of becoming popular!
I love it though - partly because it's unusual, and because it is the classic Fuchsia shape (in my opinion).
For those who would like to find out more about the native Fuchsia of New Zealand, the link below is to the relevant page at the National Fuchsia society of New Zealand.
http://nfsnz.orconhosting.net.nz/nzspecies.htm
I feel another trip to the Oratia Nursery coming on! 8)
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The Fuchsia is one of ours yet only a handful of people round the country seem to grow it, if even that many. I've never seen it myself.
When the National Fuchsia society of New Zealand say that it's "not an attractive plant" I guess that it hasn't too much of a chance of becoming popular!
I love it though - partly because it's unusual, and because it is the classic Fuchsia shape (in my opinion).
For those who would like to find out more about the native Fuchsia of New Zealand, the link below is to the relevant page at the National Fuchsia society of New Zealand.
http://nfsnz.orconhosting.net.nz/nzspecies.htm
I feel another trip to the Oratia Nursery coming on! 8)
Will you be growing natives Anthony,do you have hard winters there? and if not will you be growing more exotics?,Paphiopedilum insigne outside,what a thought.Sorry all the questions.
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Tricyrtis macropoda, remarkably early flowering but very pretty
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I feel another trip to the Oratia Nursery coming on! 8)
Will you be growing natives Anthony,do you have hard winters there? and if not will you be growing more exotics?,Paphiopedilum insigne outside,what a thought.Sorry all the questions.
I'll be growing some of each, but the situation is limited here due to the nature of the garden. Winter beginning to bite. Really cold this morning with 15oC. Brrrrrr! I have Epidendron ibaguense flowering in the garden. Isn't it tropical? Judging by the enormous clumps in a garden along Botany Road, it is quite easy round here, but then this plant is growing up a puriri tree at the entrance of my daughter's school grounds, so I'm not expecting much frost.
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:o :o OMG(I hope you don't mind the text talk)Incredible.
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Neat isn't it? They grow bananas in the school grounds too, although I haven't a scooby as to what the one with brewer's droop is?
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Anthony i am soooooooo jealous,they are incredible and that bottlebrush is huge(i hope its a bottlebrush)please keep posting pics of these incredible plants.Are cymbidiums grown outside there.
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Anthony,
By brewer's droop, are you meaning the one to the top right of the pic with the weeping stems and red flowers? If so, it is a Callistemon by the look of it (known as a Bottlebrush, as Davey said), but if you're referring to something else in the photo then point out which and we'll see what we can come up with. ;D
Davey,
Some of the Callistemon can get up to 4 or 5 metres, depending which species or varieties we're talking about. There are some absolute beauties. 8)
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And yet another Nomocharis flower today.
johnw
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With all the cool weather of the last 8 weeks the Rhodohypoxis are far behind. Only this one pink type has starting flowering. The others are just about to emerge. Barely getting into the upper teens since April with many days at 10-12c. The weather has been abysmal.
johnw
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Just beginning to flower after many weeks in bud! This little thing will not be giving any competition to its big weedy cousins... hoping for fully open flowers, and more of them--maybe if we ever get a sunny dry day ;) possibility of sun mixed with clouds tues and wed.. pouring again now...
Taraxacum faeroense (rubifolium)
Plus some seedlings of Tiarella cordifolia.. just because the photos are in the same folder... ;D
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Rudi,
Beautiful flowers. A question for you re Lilium martagon cattaniae: I have a lily in flower in the garden, label lost, which is exactly this colour. Has your plant noticeably thick, fleshy petals? The name rings a bell and it coincides with a season of sowing martagon lily seed - there are several martagon lilies together in this part of the garden.
Paddy
Paddy,I am quite sure, that you have the same plant.
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While raining yesterday at last some time to resize pictures.
And just now it starts again, so I can share some here.
Here are a few perennials
Anemone canadensis 1
Nice but always trying to take over the whole place ::) ::)
Yes, it is beautiful in bloom but horribly invasive! The very fine lateral runners make it very hard to eradicate or control. Best to see it in nature!
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Anthony's really suffering now that the Auckland temperatures are going down to about 15C in the daytime though I believe it was about 20C yesterday. And still 2 days off the shortest day. How will he bear it?
Albany, on the outskirts has been known to have -4C but generally, almost no frost in most of Auckland. Tauranga where Bill Dijk lives is also very mild and my sister certainly does have Cymbidiums in the garden, under the grapefruit and avocados.
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Anthony,
By brewer's droop, are you meaning the one to the top right of the pic with the weeping stems and red flowers? If so, it is a Callistemon by the look of it (known as a Bottlebrush, as Davey said), but if you're referring to something else in the photo then point out which and we'll see what we can come up with. ;D
Davey,
Some of the Callistemon can get up to 4 or 5 metres, depending which species or varieties we're talking about. There are some absolute beauties. 8)
It's the big bananary drooping thingy in the middle Paul. We have bottle brush bushes coming out of our ears here.
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Anthony's really suffering now that the Auckland temperatures are going down to about 15C in the daytime though I believe it was about 20C yesterday. And still 2 days off the shortest day. How will he bear it?
Anthony great pictures. I was in Fife yesterday getting some new equipment for my pond and buying a nice Koi. It was pouring of rain, 12c and miserable. Is it summer yet :-X When I got home the rain had stopped and I put my new fish in his new home. I kept thinking what a home I could give my Koi if I lived in a warmer place not only for them but for me as well, l could sit by the pond with a cool drink and enjoy them 8) saying this it's sunny now so I better get outside and enjoy my view of my new fish.
My bottle brush died this winter, should have put it in the polytunnel but have had it outside for the last ten years.
Angie :)
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Angie, mid winter here means bottle brush trees flowering and last week it was warm enough for a monarch butterfly to be visiting it. This morning my walk was a wee bit later, but I saw a kingfisher and several swallows. I guess they don't migrate? Wet again today but still 17oC!
I've been offered a possible job as inward goods/stock controller at a large garden centre/landscape business. It includes: identifying quality;performing "forensic" observation over all operations; communicating with buyers; entering stock - label printing; improving efficiency; ordering; total stock control; cost saving; streamlining operations; customer service; check out back up; displaying plants when required; contributing new ideas; storage improvements; assisting in any area as required; communicating with the boss; attention to stock damage and salvage. Hours 8.30 - 5.30 5 days/week. I asked about salary and they batted that back at me and said "what are you looking for?" Arggh. I must say I don't know! NZ$40,000 (~£20,000)?
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Rudi,
Beautiful flowers. A question for you re Lilium martagon cattaniae: I have a lily in flower in the garden, label lost, which is exactly this colour. Has your plant noticeably thick, fleshy petals? The name rings a bell and it coincides with a season of sowing martagon lily seed - there are several martagon lilies together in this part of the garden.
Paddy
Paddy,I am quite sure, that you have the same plant.
Many thanks, Rudi. Some of the plants in this group are a little paler though all were from the same seed. It's an attractive colour which I like very much.
Paddy
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Dactylorhiza fucsii form
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We have bottle brush bushes coming out of our ears here.
God, that must be uncomfortable. ??? I like the bottle brushes because they flower most heavily down this way, around Christmas and I can cut a big jarful to put in front of the fireplace. They have a really Christmassy look to them with some greenery.
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Speaking as one of the country's poor, I'd be thrilled with $40,000. Never had more than $35,000 in my life and now, on govt. super and a little from my market job, just over $15,000 after tax. If you can get it Anthony, take it, especially since jobs are not thick on the ground at present.
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Anthony always wanted to see a kingfisher. Mid winter and it's 17c , Bottle brush flowering sounds fantastic, who cares if it's raining.
The job sounds great. The company will benefit from all your knowledge. I find some of the staff at our garden centres could do with a bit of knowledge. I heard a lady ask for a butterfly bush and the boy said I have never heard of that, don't think we have that. I sometimes wonder if they can be bothered. I wonder what they get paid ::)
Angie :)
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The $40k was a figure I picked out of the air. Works out at $20/hour. The minimum wage is $13/hour and this is a management position, so I really haven't a clue.
Angie, my car once broke down near Forfar. While I was waiting for the AA I found a dead kingfisher at the side of the road. I think it is still in my former colleague's freezer? :P
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I send ten pictures taken in our garden in the first half of this month:
Aquilegia scopulorum
Delphinium smithianum
Dianthus alpinus ´Albus´
Erigeron arenarioides
Hebe armstrongii
Heteropappus goulimyi
Inula acaulis (the real thing, the other is I. rhizocephala)
Oenothera acaulis
Saxifraga granulata ´Plena´
Scutellaria sevanensis
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I love the Scutellaria. It looks quite close to S. orientalis?
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1. The first flowering of Penstemon laricifolius for me.
2. Edryanthus dalmaticus from SRGC seedex.
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Some pics from yesterday - made during a short spell without rain
1. Alstroemeria aurea
2. Bomarea edulis
3. + 4. Clematis viticella 'Etoile Violette'
5. Geranium cinereum - white variety
6. Campanula choruhensis
7. Oxalis valdiviensis - nice but a little weedy - in fact naturalized in C. and S.
England
8. Lilium martagon var. cattaniae
9. Spigelia marilandica
10. Viola szechwanensis - a V. biflora relative
Gerd
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Bit busy at the moment, but I couldn't resist finding time to snap Gladiolus flanaganii, one of my favourites for the wonderful colour.
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Oh, Brian, Love it!
I recall seeing photographs of it growing on cliffs in S. Africa when attending a talk a few years ago.
Great plant, Paddy
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An unidentified Calandrinia, exGK 5128. The flowers only last a day but are bright orange.
Parnassia spec. SDR 5128.
A nice delicate pale blue Amsonia tabernaemontana.
My favourite Lily, Olina.
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An unidentified Calandrinia, ex GK4698. The flowers only last a day but are bright orange.
Pete, good timing with the picture of the Calandrinia as I have just had an email from John Watson, in reply to mine some time ago ::) better late than never. He says that some DNA research has been done and "GK4698 is definitely quite different from the others, and is in fact a new species" (the others meaning C caespitosa and relatives). I hope to have some more information in time.
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Bit busy at the moment, but I couldn't resist finding time to snap Gladiolus flanaganii, one of my favourites for the wonderful colour.
I used to have it but lost it last winter. :'(
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Thanks for the new information Diane. Hopefully somebody will give it a name soon then?
My plants have grown and flowered well this year and set alot of seed.
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So, Pete's pic labelled ex GK4698 was incorrectly called ex 5128 in the text of his post?
So, this plant of Pete's is an un-named new species Calandrinia ex GK4698 ??? :) Have I got that right?
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So, Pete's pic labelled ex GK4698 was incorrectly called ex 5128 in the text of his post?
So, this plant of Pete's is an un-named new species Calandrinia ex GK4698 ??? :) Have I got that right?
Yes, the picture label is correct, but in the text Pete has mixed it up with the Parnassia number.
Pete's Calandrinia is GK4698 and has been distributed in AGS seed exchanges as Calandrinia sp orange GK4698 and Calandrinia aff caespitosa GK4698. Anyone requesting it from AGS seed exchange over the last three years has had a note in the packet with further information. I have been in communication with Martin Gardner (the original collector of the seed) from Edinburgh BG and John Watson over the past few years to try and get it identified as John always reckoned it was a new species.
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My apologies everyone. Diane is correct, I was thinking Parnassia when I typed. (A senior moment ocurring, I need to worry?)
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I love the Scutellaria. It looks quite close to S. orientalis?
Yes, Lesley, it is quite similar to S. orientalis.
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My apologies everyone. Diane is correct, I was thinking Parnassia when I typed. (A senior moment ocurring, I need to worry?)
I wouldn't worry, Pete... if I stressed about that sort of hiccup I'd have drowned myself years ago...... :'(
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I love the Scutellaria. It looks quite close to S. orientalis?
Yes, Lesley, it is quite similar to S. orientalis.
Such a pretty plant... makes me feel guilty that the only Scutellaria I grow is S. scordifolia 'Seoul Sapphire' :-X This nice plant was named by Graeme Butler of Rumbling Bridge Nursery when it was given an Award of Merit by the Joint Rock Committee some years ago. It seems to have made its way across quite a lot of the world now, when the number of nurseries offering it are seen. Some seem to be making an error in their descriptions though... it would NEVER make 120cms tall, as one link claimed! More like 15-20cms!
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Some pictures from today
Arisaema speciosum
Dactylorhiza maculatum
Campanula thyrsoides
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Fine plants, Gunilla.... and Maggi is looking really well too. She is a good looking girl, I'm proud to share her name :D
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I'm interested that you can grow Scut. scordifolia Maggi. I've had it a couple of times and lost it to quite light frosts. I love the deep indigo colouring of it.
The other Maggi is beautiful all right, and so WHITE on her white parts. My two are filthy at present, everything outside wet and muddy. Cain like a swim (but not a bath) and Teddy hates a bath, maybe because the dog shampoo Roger bought for him is lavender-scented. First thing after a good clean, is a roll in the mud or dust, depending on the weather.
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A few pics taken yesterday in my garden:
Aquilegia longissima
Dactylorhiza seedling x 3
Diascia anastrepta grown from my own closed pollinated seed (sent some to SRGC this year too)
Erodium 'Princesse Marion' obtained last year from Lamberton Nursery, it blooms and blooms....
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Chris,
Wow! The Dacts are glorious. If only they'd seed about here. ::)
Thanks for the pics, they're a wonderful display.
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Paul, they settled in here and now come up everywhere, in the lawn, cracks in paving, almost every pot I've got and even in the pond! Yikes. I'm awash with them. They seem to adapt to every possible condition.
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Oh, Chris, I am so madly jealous - but in a good and pleasant way. Paddy
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;D
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Some of my Campanulas
Campanula-finitima
Campanula-choruhensis
Campanula-alsinoides
Campanula-scheuchzeri
Campanula-fenestrellata
Campanula-cochleariifolia
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Lovely Franz
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Thanks for all these fine pictures and the good advice. Here are
some photos from my garden. Papaver aff. macocarpum is a relatively
new introduction from the volcanic regions of Kamtschatka and quite
easy to cultvate.
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That clematis looks very nice
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I think so too Chris, though I have to vote for the Weldenia. This was such a rare plant 20 years ago. I love that it's all over the place now.
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Rudi,
I adore that Daphne gemmata. Such an amazing yellow!! :o
Franz,
Your Campanula are so beautiful!
Chris,
I'm Sooooooooooo jealous of the Dacts. ::) ;D
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Hi Rudi . I like the delosperma . Does it set seed
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Fine plants, Gunilla.... and Maggi is looking really well too. She is a good looking girl, I'm proud to share her name :D
Thanks Maggi, she is such a good companion and always makes me smile. Her name suits her very well.
Lesley, dirt seems to fall off her coat naturally. It's very wet here too, and she loves to roll in mud and smelly things.
Lovely campanulas, Franz.
I'm so jealous of your Amorphophallus conjac, Rudi. I have grown it for many years but it will not flower :'(.
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Gunilla,
I grew Amorph konjac for many years without flowering it too, and then I fed it heavily and the following year it flowered. Many of the aroids can virtually be grown in pure fertiliser (virtually, I wouldn't suggest trying it) and they love the extra food. I've never managed to feed it regularly any year since, and it has never flowered for me since. It was lovely to finally get a flower one year though. ;D So feed them, feed them, feed them!
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Dear friends, thank you all for your friendly comments, sometimes I wish, that the Amorphopallus would
not flower,because the odour is really very unpleasant.
These plants get a good amount of fertilizer during the growing period for good flowering in the next season.
I bought my Weldenia more than 15 years ago from Jim Jermyn's nursery and it is always a pleasure to watch the
many flowers during the growing season. These plants are not hardy with me, but I don' mind the extra work.
Steve, I hope for a good set of seeds and will think about you
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Gunilla,
I grew Amorph konjac for many years without flowering it too, and then I fed it heavily and the following year it flowered. Many of the aroids can virtually be grown in pure fertiliser (virtually, I wouldn't suggest trying it) and they love the extra food. I've never managed to feed it regularly any year since, and it has never flowered for me since. It was lovely to finally get a flower one year though. ;D So feed them, feed them, feed them!
I would be careful Paul. Remember "Little Shop of Horrors"............"feed me Seymour; feed me now!" :o
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Gunilla,
I grew Amorph konjac for many years without flowering it too, and then I fed it heavily and the following year it flowered. Many of the aroids can virtually be grown in pure fertiliser (virtually, I wouldn't suggest trying it) and they love the extra food. I've never managed to feed it regularly any year since, and it has never flowered for me since. It was lovely to finally get a flower one year though. ;D So feed them, feed them, feed them!
I would be careful Paul. Remember "Little Shop of Horrors"............"feed me Seymour; feed me now!" :o
;D
Thanks Paul, I'll start feeding my plant right away before it gets angry.
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;D ;D ;D
Dang, you're on to me. Here I was paving the way for world domination by Seymour, and you've gone and given it away. ::)
;)
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Whatever it is ... it's A RUM do!!!
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I was just trying to scare'm! ::)
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A couple more to add;
First one is Penstemon barbatus "Iron Maiden".
The second to be fair is recently bought, so I can't claim full credit for this - Grevilla junipera. I've wanted one for ages and finally gave in to temptation whilst armed with some gift vouchers that I got for my birthday.
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Another offering.
I must be very clear that this was down in the "Jungle" at Heligan Gardens, but that is in the Northern hemisphere and it's so nice that it deserves to be seen....
It's Desfontainia spinosa.
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There are a number of gardens around Aberdeen with rather good examples of Desfontainia spinosa,though some were hit quite hard by the last two winters. Covered in flowers it is a VERY smart shrub over a long period.
I've only grown Grevillea as a houseplant... will you keep it out in the summer and bring it in for the winter?
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There are a number of gardens around Aberdeen with rather good examples of Desfontainia spinosa,though some were hit quite hard by the last two winters. Covered in flowers it is a VERY smart shrub over a long period.
I've only grown Grevillea as a houseplant... will you keep it out in the summer and bring it in for the winter?
Interesting about the Desfontinia - if it does ok up there maybe it's worth a punt.....
As far as the Grevilla goes, I'm building a raised bed that will be fully covered for the winter with a "coldframe roof" where it will have to take its chances - it's supposedly hardy down to minus five.
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I've seen Desfontainia spinosa in the grounds of Dundee University.
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I've seen Desfontainia spinosa in the grounds of Dundee University.
By the sounds of it, it should be ok in a sheltered spot then....
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Much as I'd love to take credit for raising this, it's a recent purchase.
Lobelia laxiflora.
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That's a very different Lobelia Meanie. How tall is it? It is sort of shrubby or more a perennial for later cutting back?
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Much as I'd love to take credit for raising this, it's a recent purchase.
Lobelia laxiflora.
Fantastic......Looks like a hybrid Flamingo that is having a hissy fit....... I love it! ;D ;D
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Lesley - it's a tender rhizomous perennial. The stock specimen was a good metre high and wide, but mine stands about 40cm in a 2 litre pot. When it gets its new pot, I'll nip a couple of the new shoots out and pot up separately - it's reputed to be a rapid grower.
Maggi - It's an absolute gem isn't it! I wanted one as soon as I saw a photo of one, and even though it's relatively rare I found one at Hill House Nursery in Devon. Which was a result, as we were off to Cornwall anyway, and it is only a couple of miles off our route.
For anyone in the area, or off that way on holiday, I do recommend Hill House Nursery - it's a jewel of a place! And the prices in person are cheaper than tinterweb prices too (as it should be).
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk/about_us.html
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Clicked on the Hill House Nursery link... how good it not be a great place... look at that adorable Dachshund they have... pictured taking his ease in the foliage.... bless him!
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Clicked on the Hill House Nursery link... how good it not be a great place... look at that adorable Dachshund they have... pictured taking his ease in the foliage.... bless him!
It is a great place!
There were birds buzzing around the greenhouses, with food out for them too! Wonderful stock/specimen plants everywhere. And the prices......I got a one metre Iochroma grandiflora for £5.00. The Lobelia was £4.50.
I had to pass up on a Plectranthus which I really wanted (£5.00) as it was to damn big to go in the car this time!
Brugmansia at one metre plus were £5.00 (cheaper than a bare root plant around here).
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And a jolly good tearoom too by the look of the website. ;D :P
Meanie have you tried Lobelia tupa? It is hardy here but perhaps not everywhere. I love the red colour which is a sort of smoky shade with big, soft green foliage. I also love it because our bellbirds and tuis drink the nectar and so pollinate it, making masses of seeds. In a wet place it will grow to a good 2 metres but in my dry garden it makes just about a metre. It is spectacular.
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And a jolly good tearoom too by the look of the website. ;D :P
Meanie have you tried Lobelia tupa? It is hardy here but perhaps not everywhere. I love the red colour which is a sort of smoky shade with big, soft green foliage. I also love it because our bellbirds and tuis drink the nectar and so pollinate it, making masses of seeds. In a wet place it will grow to a good 2 metres but in my dry garden it makes just about a metre. It is spectacular.
It does a mean hot chocolate Lesley!
I have some L.tupa seedlings coming along nicely for next year. They have it in the garden at Oxfords botanic gardens. Hit a good two metres despite the "dry" site, which is next to the glass-houses facing south.
I have Queen Victoria seedlings just germinated too - lost the lot last winter. The only one to come through was L.siphilitica......
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A couple of plants flowering in the garden now:
Allium cernuum
Anemonopsis macrophylla (white form)
Deinanthe caerulea
Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla
Origanum microphyllum
Origanum rotundifolia 'Kent Beauty'
and Primula florindae
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Love that Allium Wim (and I don't usually go for pink blooms).
A couple more from me. First one is Salvia patens "Dots Delight", with the second being another (unknown)S.patens too. Both grown from seed sent to me last year.
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Two more;
First one is a new purchase, again from Hill House Nursery, Iochroma grandiflora. Standing a metre high, it cost just a fiver (which is less than we pay for run of the mill perennials around this area.
The second is my ever (well almost) reliable Monarda didyma, which is not performing so well this year. Lots of growth, but a lot of it is stunted.
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Two final offerings, both real favourites of mine.
Gloriosa superba - gives fantastic rewards for very little effort.
The second to be fair is a house plant - Aeschynanthus marmoratus. I love the unusual small green blooms!
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Nice leaves on the Aeschynanthus it seems--does it have a lot of red markings?
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Nice leaves on the Aeschynanthus it seems--does it have a lot of red markings?
It does - the common name is Zebra Basket Vine.
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I visited Lom in central southern Norway recently, and went for a walk along one of their impressive waterways. This one, Bordvassvegen, goes through forest and I came across these beauties; Monese uniflora (pictures 1 and 2) and Linnea borealis (picture 3).
Knud
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Wim, are you absolutely sure about Origanum microphyllum? I think it looks very like O. amanum or maybe a hybrid of it. Microphyllum as I have it has very tiny, quite grey leaves and equally small flowers of strong magenta colour. The long tubes on your flowers are typical of amanum. O. microphyllum has a really good herby scent and I sometimes use it in the kitchen if my herb garden plants have had too much taken from them. It has a good strong flavour. :D
Lovely to see Deinanthe caerulea. I have 3 seedlings which I'm hoping are D. bifida, the white one. They're too small for me to be sure yet. From SRGC seed. And yes, when the (slow) Asteranthera seed is ready, you shall have some.
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Wim, are you absolutely sure about Origanum microphyllum? I think it looks very like O. amanum or maybe a hybrid of it. Microphyllum as I have it has very tiny, quite grey leaves and equally small flowers of strong magenta colour. The long tubes on your flowers are typical of amanum. O. microphyllum has a really good herby scent and I sometimes use it in the kitchen if my herb garden plants have had too much taken from them. It has a good strong flavour. :D
Not sure, no. I bought it from a nursery which I trust with naming but even they can make mistakes. I had a look on the web and your right off course, it's probably amanum. Thanks for pointing that out, Lesley :).
Lovely to see Deinanthe caerulea. I have 3 seedlings which I'm hoping are D. bifida, the white one. They're too small for me to be sure yet. From SRGC seed. And yes, when the (slow) Asteranthera seed is ready, you shall have some.
I have the pink form of D. bifida here too...if it sets seed I'll send you some if you like. Did I ask you about the Asteranthera seed ?? I don't remember that.
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Some more late flowering in the garden here :
1-2 : Campanula x stansfieldii
3-4 : Fuchsia magellanica pumila
5-6 : Origanum amanum
7-8 : Silene hookeri ssp bollanderi
9 : Silene elisabethae
10) Silene hookeri ingramii
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Very nice plants and photos, Luc. Useful for me to see the S. elisabethae, I have a potful of seedlings that don't look quite like the plant in you picture, - and I was already a bit suspicious.
On our trip to Lom two weeks ago we visited the Juvass area in the Jotunheimen National Park. The road goes to an elevation of 1850 m (just over 6000') where there is permafrost to 300 m. The annual melting of the top layer of permafrost has organised this layer into what is called a polygon field, essentially pads of fine particles or "soil" surrounded by a polygonal network of coarse particles, i.e. stones, rocks, and boulders. The pads were typically 1-5 m (3-15') across, and had many alpines growing on them. When we were there Ranunculus glacialis dominated (you had to watch your step!), but Saxifraga oppositifolia, s. cespitosa, and a draba were also blooming.
Pictures 1 and 2 show R. glacialis in its polygon field landscape, and picture 3 a particularly fine specimen. R. glacialis does not benefit from the high levels of toxins that keep most of its relatives from beeing eaten in fields by livestock. The reindeer is quite happy to graze these plants to the ground, as is seen in picture 4. In fact, hunters today, like those that hunted reindeer at Juvass 1000-2000-3000 years ago, look for freshly grazed plants as signs of reindeer in the area. The local name "reinblom" for R. glacialis points to its close relation with reindeer in local culture.
A interesting plant, apparently requiring as little as six weeks to complete its cycle during summer.
Knud
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Very nice plants and photos, Luc. Useful for me to see the S. elisabethae, I have a potful of seedlings that don't look quite like the plant in you picture, - and I was already a bit suspicious.
On our trip to Lom two weeks ago we visited the Juvass area in the Jotunheimen National Park. The road goes to an elevation of 1850 m (just over 6000') where there is permafrost to 300 m. The annual melting of the top layer of permafrost has organised this layer into what is called a polygon field, essentially pads of fine particles or "soil" surrounded by a polygonal network of coarse particles, i.e. stones, rocks, and boulders. The pads were typically 1-5 m (3-15') across, and had many alpines growing on them. When we were there Ranunculus glacialis dominated (you had to watch your step!), but Saxifraga oppositifolia, s. cespitosa, and a draba were also blooming.
Pictures 1 and 2 show R. glacialis in its polygon field landscape, and picture 3 a particularly fine specimen. R. glacialis does not benefit from the high levels of toxins that keep most of its relatives from beeing eaten in fields by livestock. The reindeer is quite happy to graze these plants to the ground, as is seen in picture 4. In fact, hunters today, like those that hunted reindeer at Juvass 1000-2000-3000 years ago, look for freshly grazed plants as signs of reindeer in the area. The local name "reinblom" for R. glacialis points to its close relation with reindeer in local culture.
A interesting plant, apparently requiring as little as six weeks to complete its cycle during summer.
Knud
Nice to see your travel pics, Knud! Linnaea is blooming now here in some spots, though not all; Moneses I don't think has started, though I haven't looked in a while...lol
The R glacialis is an interesting plant in an interesting place!
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Luc, somehow at first I thought your message was from Oleg (Moscow), and I was quite shocked to see the Fuchsia in the ground...lol
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Did I ask you about the Asteranthera seed ?? I don't remember that.
Well someone did. I'd better check back. ??? And no the Pinguicula seed hasn't arrived yet. Probably having a little sojourn with MAF. I'll let you know.
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Did I ask you about the Asteranthera seed ?? I don't remember that.
Well someone did. I'd better check back. ??? And no the Pinguibula seed hasn't arrived yet. Probably having a little sojourn with MAF. I'll let you know.
It was a Wim who asked for the seeds, but not me ;D ;D ;D: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6761.msg187420#msg187420
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Did I ask you about the Asteranthera seed ?? I don't remember that.
Well someone did. I'd better check back. ??? And no the Pinguibula seed hasn't arrived yet. Probably having a little sojourn with MAF. I'll let you know.
It was a Wim who asked for the seeds, but not me ;D ;D ;D: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6761.msg187420#msg187420
Don't you find that life is like that, Lesley? Some you Wim, some you lose! :D
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Aconitum fukutomei, a collection I made from Taiwan that flowers on terminal racemes
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That's a glorious Aconitum Pascal!
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You're so right Cliff. ;D I've lost someone else though as well, because someone DID ask for the Asteranthera seed. It wasn't Wim B and I don't think it can have been the other one because I hadn't seen that thread in the first place. So if anyone did ask, and I've not replied, please get in touch. I can't find anything in my PMs back as far as April and I hadn't seen the pods then.
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Nice to see your travel pics, Knud! Linnaea is blooming now here in some spots, though not all; Moneses I don't think has started, though I haven't looked in a while...lol
The R glacialis is an interesting plant in an interesting place!
Thank you Cohan. I was wondering, are you having a late spring/summer this year, or is this the normal time for Linnea and Monese to bloom with you?
Knud
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Nice to see your travel pics, Knud! Linnaea is blooming now here in some spots, though not all; Moneses I don't think has started, though I haven't looked in a while...lol
The R glacialis is an interesting plant in an interesting place!
Thank you Cohan. I was wondering, are you having a late spring/summer this year, or is this the normal time for Linnea and Monese to bloom with you?
Knud
I'd have to look for some other year's photos to compare, but its about normal... these are not at all spring flowers here, very few forest flowers are early here.. Pyrolas are also flowering now..at least some of them, and Moneses now as well..